Academic etiquette, e-communism, onshoring and home run distributions

Some more links from around the world of economics and beyond:

1. Academic etiquette: Are economists rude and trying to sneak values in the back door? Prominent econo-blogger Brad de Long makes contributions on both the appropriate etiquette on interrupting speakers and the long-standing quarrel about economics as a value free social science, in response to views expressed by social science colleagues in sociology and philosophy. The former strays at length onto the topic of the Great Famine, FYI.